Ultra Gravitron

Ultra Gravitron

Ultra Gravitron • Logos • Creature • Rare • (Play only with the other half of Ultra Gravitron.) 
 Play: Archive the top 5 cards of your deck. 
 Fight/Reap: Discard a card from your archives. If you do, purge a creature and resolve each of its bonus icons as if you had played it. • Artist: Colin Searle • Card Number: MM:125

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Logos

Creature

Rare

10 Power

3 Armor

Robot

(Play only with the other half of Ultra Gravitron.)

Play: Archive the top 5 cards of your deck.

Fight/Reap: Discard a card from your archives. If you do, purge a creature and resolve each of its bonus icons as if you had played it.

“Go go Ultra Gravitron!”

MM 125

Artist: Colin Searle

Official Rulings

• If I use the Action: ability on Fission Bloom (MM 087) and then use the After Fight/After Reap: ability on Ultra Gravitron (MM 125) to purge an enemy creature and resolve each of its bonus icons, do I get to resolve all its icons twice?
  Yes. Ultra Gravitron’s “as if you had played” text is intended to trigger all card effects like Fission Bloom’s “The next time you play a card this turn.”

  Source: Rulebook

If I use the Action: ability on Fission Bloom (MM 087) and then use the After Fight/After Reap: ability on Ultra Gravitron (MM 125) to purge an enemy creature and resolve each of its bonus icons, do I get to resolve all its icons twice?

Yes. Ultra Gravitron’s “as if you had played” text is intended to trigger all card effects like Fission Bloom’s “The next time you play a card this turn.”

Source: Rulebook

Commentary

In order to play a gigantic creature, a player must have both halves of the creature in hand, and play those cards together as a single creature. The top half of a gigantic creature has the text “1 of 2” next to its title, while its corresponding bottom half shares the same title and has the text “2 of 2” next to its rarity icon.

A gigantic creature counts as 2 cards while out of play, but as a single creature card while in play. Playing a gigantic creature only counts as playing 1 card, and therefore it is allowed on the first turn. After a gigantic creature leaves play, the 2 halves are treated as separate cards again.

Both halves of a gigantic creature have the same title, house, and card type. Otherwise, each half has the attributes printed on it: the top half has bonus icons, while the bottom half has power, armor, and the text box (including traits).

If a card instructing the active player to play or put into play a creature chooses one half of a gigantic creature, that effect will fail.

Examples:

• Regrowth would only be able to return one half of a gigantic creature to hand.
• Tempting Offer returns both halves of a gigantic creature from play to its owner's hand.
• Resurgence could return the bottom half of Niffle Kong (with the Mutant trait) and then return the top half, but the same would not work for Ultra Gravitron as the bottom half does not have the Mutant trait.
• Troop Call can return all of Niffle Kong to hand from play. From the discard pile, however, Troop Call can only return the bottom half of Niffle Kong since only the bottom half has the Niffle trait.
• The ability of Library Card draws a single card when Ultra Gravitron is played.
• A gigantic creature counts as playing a single card in regards to the ability of Ember Imp.
  Source: Gigantic

Outstanding Issues

• If I play Exhume and target half a Gigantic creature in the discard pile for which I have the other half in my hand, does the Gigantic creature get played or does the effect of Exhume fail?

  Arcana Advises: A card that will allow you to play a single creature from an out-of-play zone such as Lateral Shift, Helper Bot, or Subject Kirby will successfully play a Gigantic creature if both halves of the Gigantic creature are within that zone. However, Exhume's ability is targeting a single card in the discard pile and would therefore fail.

  For more information about Arcana Advises and Outstanding Issues, click here.

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